Mud City FREE Guide eekender ALL THINGS CALISTOGAW September 2018
Ph o t o b y Ki m Be l t r a n ‘Fiesta en el Molino Bale’ celebrates dual heritage Film Festival returns What’s in your Attic? Grape Harvest A list & map of with local drive-in 5 What’s it worth? 8-9 is underway! 12 our wineries 22
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Film Festival drives back to town 5 5 8th annual Napa Valley Film Festival returns to Calistoga with ‘drive-in’ theater at fairgrounds
Fiesta en el Molino Bale 6 New event celebrates Hispanic contributions to valley from 1800’s to present
What’s in your attic? 8-9 Sharpsteen’s Art & Antiques Roadshow evaluates treasured heirlooms, old finds Alexa, what’s this wine? 11 8 Most customers don’t care about wine per se, but rather what’s in it for them
2018 grape harvest underway 12 As is tradition, Schramsberg kicks off Upvalley harvest season with sabering on crush pad
Napa Valley loses icon, friend 14 Longtime vintner and Calistoga resident Jim Summers of Summers Estate Winery passes away 12 Uncorking fun wine facts 21 Did you know a ton of grapes makes about 720 bottles or 60 cases of great wine?
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The Mud City Weekender, your best guide to all things Calistoga ou have come to the another stop in the wine coun- is a special place in our hearts and food, but you’ll find tidbits right spot, to this town try. We’re our own unique little will be in yours as well.We about our community and its Yof Calistoga, if you are version of heaven, filled with started the Mud City Weekender history, too. looking for a place to slow local characters and quirky per- over 15 years ago to help visi- Small businesses keep the down, relax, put up your feet sonalities – all of them calling tors discover Calistoga during heart of Calistoga beating, and and enjoy life. out a big Calistoga welcome! their stay here. Tired of all the without them this would just be In the Mud City Weekender Visit our spas, wineries, res- slick, glossy magazines that tout another bedroom community we offer you some insights into taurants and shops. Go to our Napa Valley but seem to stop without that spark of life our Calistoga and its residents and local grocery stores and wait in short of coming this far north, business community brings. hope you get to know us a little line with us, you’ll learn a lot if we wanted to bring our town to Thanks for coming, and bit better through our restau- you take the time to listen. Take the center of your attention by come back and visit anytime. rants, shops, wineries and spas. time for the Sharpsteen writing just about our wineries, We’ll be here to welcome you After all, isn’t that what drew Museum. Go on a hot air bal- our events, our history, us. home. Find your balance here. Sam Brannan you here in the first place? loon ride and see us from the That’s why not only will you Founder —Pat Hampton, Publisher But remember, we’re not just clouds. Find out why Calistoga find stories about wine and mud of Calistoga SUGARDADDY’S Stevenson toasts California wine CONSIGNMENT from abandoned mining camp RLS, that’s what we locals are involved. The beginning of Clothing & Accessories call our ‘homeboy’ Robert Louis vine-planting is like the begin- Stevenson. We take that liberty ning of mining for the precious Home Furnishings & because he honeymooned above metals: the wine-grower also Embellishments Calistoga in the 1800’s where he began writing Silverado Squatters “Prospects.” One corner of at an abandoned mining camp. land after another is tried with New Inventory Additions: Robert Louis Stevenson one kind of grape after another. Scottish author Robert Louis Steven- plus size women's clothing & State Park is the place where the This is a failure; that is bet- son honeymooned above Calistoga famous author of Treasure Island ter; a third best. So, bit by bit, at an abandoned mining camp. casual menswear and Kidnapped spent his honey- they grope about for their Clos wanders farther, and the grizzly moon in 1880. Although nothing Vougeot and Lafite. Those lodes 0QFO4VOUP5IVSt'SJ4BU muses undisturbed. But there remains of Stevenson’s cabin, the and pockets of earth, more pre- they bide their hour, awaiting "-JODPMO"WFOVFt$BMJTUPHBt site is identified on the trail to the cious than the precious ores, summit. their Columbus; and nature that yield inimitable fragrance Passages in the memoir in- nurses and prepares them. The and soft fire; those virtuous clude the Scottish author’s notes smack of Californian earth shall Bonanzas, where the soil has on his wine tasting experiences in linger on the palate of your sublimated under sun and stars the valley in the early 1880’s: grandson.” to something finer, and the wine “Wine in California is still is bottled poetry: these still lie –The Silverado Squatters, 1883 in the experimental stage; undiscovered; chaparral con- and when you taste a vintage, ceals, thicket embowers them; grave economical questions the miner chips the rock and
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